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A35234	Historical remarques and observations of the ancient and present state of London and Westminster shewing the foundation, walls, gates, towers, bridges, churches, rivers ... : with an account of the most remarkable accidents as to wars, fires, plagues, and other occurrences which have happened therein for above nine hundred years past, till the year 1681 : illustrated with pictures of the most considerable matters curiously ingraven on copper plates, with the arms of the sixty six companies of London, and the time of their incorporating / by Richard Burton, author of The history of the wars of England.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1681 (1681)	Wing C7329; ESTC R22568	140,180	238

willingly and powerfully repulsing the wrongs offered me by my Brother shall I say Nay by the most deadly Enemy both to me to you and the whole Nation For if I be guarded with the Valour and Affections of Englishmen I shall scorn the threats of him and his Normans and count them vain and not to be regarded With these fair promises which yet he afterward quite neglected he so won the hearts of the Lords and the Londoners that they engaged to die with him or for him against any opposition whatsoever Duke Robert being gone and Henry thus setled in the affection of the People he raised a very great Army and accompanied with divers of the Nobility sailed to Normandy where falling upon Robert before he was half ready to fight he obtained a compleat Victory over him and won Normandy with the slaughter of ten thousand men taking Robert himself prisoner whom he brought over and committed to Cardiff Castle in Wales where he remained a prisoner till he died yet had liberty of walking in the Kings Meadows and Pastures But being weary of this Confinement he endeavoured to make his escape which the King being afraid of ordered his eyes to be put out which to avoid the deformity of breaking the Eye-bals was done by causing his head to be held to a burning Basin till the Glassie Tunicles had lost the Office of retaining the Light This though it increased his misery yet did not shorten his life for he lived long after in all from the time of his Imprisonment twenty eight years And thus this great Duke who in his Birth was the joy of Nature in his Life was the scorn of Fortune And it is worth observing that the English won Normandy th● very same day fortieth year the Normans had won England Such Revolutions of Fortune there are in kingdoms and so unstable is the state of all wordly Greatness This Robert died 1134 and lies buried at Glocester One Author writes That King Henry sent him according to his Custom a Robe of Scarlet and putting it first on himself found that the Capouch or Hood as the Fashion was then was somewhat too little whereupon he said Carry this to my Brother his head is less than mine The Messenger delivering the Robe Duke Robert demanded if any had worn it and being told the King had first tried it on and what words he had said The Duke replied I have too long protracted a miserable life since my Brother is so injurious to me that he sends me his old Clothes to wear And from that time he would never taste any food nor receive any comfort This King Henry first instituted the Form of the High Court of Parliament for before his time onely certain of the Nobility and Prelates of the Realm were called to consultation about the most important Affairs of State but he caused the Commons also to be assembled by Knights Citizens and Burgesses of their own electing and made that Court to consist of three Estates the Nobility the Clergy and the Commons represeming the whole Body of the Realm and appointed them to fit in several Chambers the King the Lords and the Bishops in one and the Commons in another and to consult together by themselves He established likewise several other Orders as they are used to this day The first Parliament that was so held met at Salisbury upon the 19 of April in the 16 Year of his Reign 1019. He forbid wearing of long hair which at that time was frequent according to the French Mode He commanded Robers on the High-way to be hanged without Redemption He punished Counterfeiters of Money with pulling out their eyes or cutting off their privy members a punishment both less than Death and greater In this Kings time Guymond one of his Chaplains observing that unlearned and unworthy men were generally prefer'd to the best dignities in the Church as he celebrated Divine Service before him and was to read these words out of S. James It rained not upon the earth III years and VI Months he read it thus It rained not upon the Earth 1.1.1 years and 5.1 Months The King observed his Reading and afterwards blamed him for it but Guymond answered That he did it on purpose since such Readers were sconest advanced by His Majesty The King smiled and afterwards promoted him About this time Thomas Archb. of York falling sick his Physicians told him that nothing would do him good but to company with a woman to whom he answered That the Remedy was worse than the disease And so it is said died a Virgin Upon the Tenth of October the River of Medway that runs by Rochester failed so of water for many miles together that in the midst of the Channel the smallest Vessels could not pass and the same day also in the Thames between the Tower and London Bridge men waded over on foot for the space of two days A great fire happened in London which consumed a long Tract of buildings from Westcheap to Aldgate and several other great Cities in England were likewise burnt down about this time In the thirteenth of this King many Prodigies were seen a Pig was farrowed with a face like a child a Chicken was hatched with four legs and the Sun was so deeply eclipsed that by reason of the darkness many Stars did plainly appear This King left behind him onely one daughter named Maud who could never come to be Queen though born to a Kingdom She was married at six years old to the Emperour Henry the Fourth and after his death she was again married to Fulk Duke of Anjou Yet her Father took much care to establish the Succession in her and her issue and therefore he called his Nobility together and among them David King of Scots and made them take their Oaths of Allegiance to her and her Heirs This he did three years one after another wherein nothing pleased him so much as that Stephen Earl of Blois was the first man that took the Oath because he was known to be or it was known at least that he might be a pretender to the Crown But the King should have considered that no Oath is binding when the getting a Kingdom is the price of breaking it and especially to Stephen who was so deeply interested Yet Providence could do no more and the King was well satisfied with it especially when he saw his daughter Mother of two Sons for this though it gave him no assurance yet it gave him assured hope to have the Crown perpetuated in his Posterity Yet after King Henry was dead Stephen ascends the Throne as being Earl of Bulleign Son to Stephen Earl of Beis by Adela daughter of King William the Conquerour and though there were two before him that is Maud the Empress and Theobald his elder Brother yet taking hold of opportunity while the other lingred about smaller Affairs he solicites all the Orders of the Realm Bishops and Lords and People to receive

and now the remembrance of these oversights is not more unpleasant to any man than my self and the rather because I have no means left either to recompence the injuries which I have done or to testifie to the World my reformed Affections which experience and stayedness of years had already corrected and would daily have framed to more perfection But whether all the Imputations wherewith I am charged be True either in Substance or in such Quality as they are laid or whether being True they are so heinous as to force these Extremities or whether any other Prince especially in the heat of Youth and in the space of twenty two years the time of my unfortunate Reign doth not sometimes either for advantage or upon displeasure in as deep manner grieve some particular Subject I will not now examine It helpeth not to use any Defence neither is it to any purpose to complain there is left no room for the one nor pity for the other and therefore I refer it to the Judgment of God and your less distempered Considerations I accuse no man I blame no Fortune I complain of nothing I have no pleasure in such vain and needless comforts if I had minded to have stood upon Terms I know I have Great Favourers abroad and I hope some Friends at home who would have been ready yea very forward on my behalf to have begun a bloody and doubtful War but I esteem not my Dignity at so high a Rate or Value as to venture the loss of so much English Bloud and the wasting and desolation of such a flourishing Kingdom as this might have occasioned Therefore that the Common-wealth may rather rise by my fall than I stand by the ruin thereof I willingly yeild to your desires and am here come to dispossess my self of all publick Authority and Title and to make it free and lawful for you to create for your King Henry Duke of Lancaster my Cosen German whom I know to be as worthy to take that Place as I see you willing to give it to him Then he read openly the form of his Resignation which discharged his Subjects from all Oathes and Fealty c. to which the King subscribed and was sworn After which he delivered with his own hands the Crown the Scepter and the Robe to the Duke of Lancaster wishing him more happiness therewith than ever he enjoyed desiring him and the rest to permit him to live safely in a private and obscure life and not altogether forget he had been their King Upon October 13. following the Duke of Lancaster was Crowned King by the Name of Henry the Fourth and King Richard was removed to Pomfret Castle but some of the Lords being discontented with Henry used many endeavours to restore Richard again which caused great Wars and Rebellions and occasioned such Melancholy in King Henry that sitting one time at his Table he sighing said Have I no faithful Friend who will deliver me from him that will be my Death This Speech was especially noted by one Sir Piers of Exton who presently with eight Persons in his Company came to Pomfret commanding the Esquire who was Taster to King Richard to be so no more whereat the King marvelling asked him the Reason Sir said he I am otherwise commanded by Sir Piers of Exton who is newly come from King Henry when King Richard heard that word he took the Carving-knife in his hand and strook the Esquire lightly on the head saying The Devil take Henry of Lancaster and thee together and with that word Sir Piers entred the Chamber with eight armed men every one having a Bill in his hand King Richard perceiving this put the Table from him and stepping to the foremost man wrested the Bill out of his hands and slew four of those that thus came to assault him Sir Piers lept to the Chair where King Richard used to sit whilst the rest chased him about the Chamber at last being forced to the place where Sir Piers was he with a stroak of his Pole-Ax upon his head felled him down and so ended his miserable life It is said that at the point of his death the King gathered some Spirit and with a faint and feeble voice groaned forth these words My Great Grandfnther King Edward the II. was in this manner deposed imprisoned and Murdered by which means my Granfather King Edward the III. obtained the Crown and now is the punishment of that injnry poured upon his next Successor well this may be just for me to suffer but not Right for you to do Your King for a time may rejoyce at my Death and enjoy his desire but let him qualifie his pleasures with Expectation of the same Justice for God who measureth all our Actions by the malice of our Minds will not suffer this to go unpunished Sir Piers having thus slain the King wept bitterly and a great part of this prophetical Speech came to pass in a short time after King Richard thus dead his Body was imbalmed and covered with Lead all save his Face and then brought to London where it lay in St. Pauls Church three days unburied that all might see he was dead And this was the end of this unfortunate Prince in which there was a wonderful Concurrence of Fortune in behalf of King Henry and against Richard but when all is done there is no resisting the Decree of Heaven but since that is unknown to us and perhaps but Conditional we shall be manifest Traytors to our selves if we use not our uttermost endeavours to divert it so that it may be truly said Richard lost his Crown more by his own fault than the Treason of any other After this long diversion let us now return to the Tower of London In 1458 there were Justs and Turnaments in the Tower In 1478. The Duke of Clarence was drowned in a Butt of Malmsey within the Tower Elizabeth Wife to King Henry 7. Dyed in the Tower in Child-bed 1502. In the year 1512 the Chappel in the High White Tower was burnt Queen Ann Bullein was beheaded in the Tower 1541 and a little after Katherine Howard both Wives to Henry the Eight In the year 1546 a strange accident happened in the Tower for one Foxly who was Potmaker for the Mint falling a sleep could not be awakened by pinching beating or burning for fourteen days at which time he awaked as fresh as the first day he began to sleep In King Henry the Eights time the Tower was often full of Prisoners and among others Sir Thomas More Lord Chancellor of England who was kept close Prisoner and at last they took from him all his Books whereupon he shut up his Prison Windows and lived in Darkness and being asked the reason he answered it is time to shut up Shop when the Wares are all gone At his first entrance into the Tower the Gentleman Porter demanded his Fee which is the upper Garment whereupon Sr. Thomas pulled off his Cap to

you have already an account After the death of King John his eldest Son Henry being not above ten years old succeeded him and was therefore very unfit to govern in such a distracted time when a great part of the kingdom had sworn Allegiance to Prince Lewis However upon October 8. 1216. he was crowned at Glocester by the name of Henry the Third where besides the usual Oath taken by all Kings he did Homage also to the Church of Rome and to Pope Innocent for the kingdoms of England and Ireland and promised the true payment of the Thousand Marks a year which his Father had granted to the Church of Rome And then William Marshal Earl of Pembroke was by general consent made Protector of the Realm during the Kings Minority In the mean time Lewis who thought himself sure of the kingdom by the death of King John now hearing of the solemn Crowning of the young King with such unanimous consent he begins to grow jealous of the English Lords who indeed had some conflicts in their minds whom they should obey they thought it great ingratitude to forsake Prince Lewis whom they themselves had invited to come and yet it seemed extream disloyalty to stand in opposition to Henry their innocent natural Soveraign but the discovery of Viscount Melun that Lewis intended to extirpate all the English Nobility and the curse of Wallo the Popes Legate against all who should join with Lewis with divers other reasons caused the principal of them to shrink from Lewis and join with King Henry as thinking no obligation so great as Allegiance many others staid with Lewis as thinking none greater than an Oath And now Prince Lewis fearing that his enemies having gotten an head should likewise gather a head and draw more Forces together staying himself in London sent his Lieutenant with an Army of Twenty thousand to take in what Towns he could get some of which they took with small resistance but William Earl of Pembroke the Protector coming against them with an Army utterly routed Lewis and took most of the Lords that adhered to him Prisoners and though his Father Philip sent him more Forces yet they were defeated at Sea so that Lewis upon payment of some monies and other conditions returned into France and King Henry took an Oath and for him the Popes Legate Wallo and the Protector That he would restore to the Barons of the Realm and other his Subjects all their Rights and Priviledges for which the discord began between the late King and his People And afterward he confirmed the two Charters of Magna Charta and Charta Forestae granted by his Father King John In the Tenth year of King Henries Reign and the nineteenth of his Age he claimed to take the Government upon himself and no longer to be under a Protector after which there presently appeared the difference between a Prince that is ruled by good counsel and one that will do all of his own will and take no Advice For thirteen years he was ruled by a Protector and then all passed as it were in a calm without noise or clamour but as soon as he took upon him the Government storms and tumults presently arose neither was there any quietness with the Subject nor himself nothing but Grievances all the long time of his Reign For as soon as he was crowned again he presently cancels and annuls the Charter of the Forests as granted in his Nonage and therefore not bound to observe it and then makes a new Seal forcing all that had Grants by the former to renew them whereby he got abundance of money After which he goes over into France to recover his Rights there to which purpose he raises great sums of money from the Londoners for Redemption of their Liberties About which time Constantine Fitz-Arnulf a Citizen of London upon a tumult which arose in the City at a Wrestling which he purposely appointed endeavoured to set up Lewis again and in the heat of the disturbance he traiterously cried out Mountjoy Mountjoy God for us and our Lord Lewis And though the Lord Mayor who was a very discreet person earnestly persuaded them to be quiet yet Constantine by his seditious Orations had made the people incapable of good counsel so that there was little hope of appeasing them The Lord Chief Justice having notice hereof presently raised Forces and entered the Tower of London and sent for the principal men of the City to come before him who all disclaimed their being concerned therein and charged Fitz Arnulph to be the chief Author thereof But he resolutely answered That he had not done so much therein as he ought Whereupon he was condemned to die together with the Crier who published the Proclamation and his Nephew and was accordingly executed though when he saw the Halter about his neck he offered Fifteen thousand Marks for the saving of his life This Execution being done without noise or the knowledge of the Londoners the Lord Chief Justice comes into the City and apprehending several who where guilty of this Tumult he causeth their hands and feet to be cut off for a terrour to the rest and then set them at liberty The King likewise deposed several of the Magistrates but afterwards finding that the baser sort of People onely were concerned in the Disorder he thereupon was reconciled to the City About this time an Execrable Impostor was brought before the Archbishop of Canterbury who observing how easily the People were deluded in those times of Darkness and Superstition he impudently caused himself to be wounded in his hands feet and sides that by the resemblance of these bloudy Impressions he might be acknowledged for their very Saviour who was thereupon deservedly immured up between four Walls and with him a wretched Woman who pretended to be Mary the Mother of this Christ and some say another who called her self Mary Magdalene this punishment being thought fittest for such Miscreants as Monsters too impious and unworthy to die by Humane hands though it is very remarkable that this man should have such a severe judgment at Oxford and yet St. Francis who was guilty of the same Imposture as to the wounds of Christ though not the name should soon after be canonized at Rome for the chief of Saints and perhaps if this Monster had been at Rome he had been likewise Sainted and if Saint Francis had been at Oxford he had been immured King Henry returning from France brought over many French men with him which he puts in places of Trust and Profit and removes and fines his old Officers The Lords could no longer endure so many indignities to see themselves slighted and Strangers advanced their Persons likewise exposed to danger and their Estates to ruine for which they could find no remedy but the Kings confirming their Charter of Liberties wherein it is strange to see upon what different grounds the King and the Lords went It seems the King thought that to

the Kingdom but they go home again frustrate of their desi●es Not long after a Parliament is assembled at London and Henry de Bath one of the Judges and Councellour to the King who by corruption had got a vast Est●te is accused by Philip Darcy and Bath thereupon appears strongly guarded with his Friends The Accusations were many but especially two That he troubled the whole Realm and stirred up all the Lords thereof against the King and that for reward he had discharged a Malefactor out of Prison The King was so enraged to see him with so many men that mounting into an high place he cries out aloud Whosoever kills Henry de Bath shall be pardoned for his death and I do here acquit him and so departs But Sir John Mansel one of his Council spake thus to some who was ready to execute his will Gentlemen and Friends It is not necessary for us to put that presently in execution which the King commandeth in his anger for it may be when his wrath is over he will be sorry for what he hath said Besides if any violence be offered to Bath here are his friends ready to revenge it to the utmost And so Sir Henry Bath escaped the present danger and afterwards with money and friends made his peace About this time the King by Proclamation calls the Londoners to Westminster and there causeth the Bishops of Worcester Chichester to declare his intentions and to exhort the People to undertake the recovery of the Holy Land from the Saracens the King being persuaded thereto by the Pope who usually sent Princes abro●d to recover Palestine on purpose that he might fleece the Subjects of some and seize the Lands of others at home in their absence But the Londoners had no mind to this Pilgrimage and therefore all the Bishops Arguments prevailed onely upon three poor Knights whom the King thereupon in open view embraceth kisseth and calls his Brethren but checks the Londoners as ignoble Mercenaries and there himself takes his Oath for performing this Journey and to set forth upon Midsummer day next In taking his Oath he lays his right hand upon his Brest according to the manner of a Priest and after on the Book and kist it as a Layman Now for money to carry on this the King demands a Tenth of the Estates of the Clergy and Laiety for three years together To which end a Parliament is called at London where the Bishops are first dealt withal as being a work of Piety but they absolutely refuse it then the Temporal Lords are set upon and they answer as the Bishops which put the King into so great a rage that he drove out all that were in his Chamber as if he had been mad Then he falls to persuade them apart sending first for the Bishop of Ely and tells him how kindly he had formerly been to him the Bishop dissuades him from the Journey by the example of the French King and useth many other Arguments which the King hearing commanded the Bishop in great passion to be thrust out of doors and perceiving by this what he might expect from others he falls upon his former violent courses and the City of London is compelled to contribute a thousand Marks Gascoign is likewise ready to revolt unless speedy succour be sent them and general Musters are made which occasions another Parliament at London who it seems began to consider that the Kings turn must be served one way for other and therefore they agreed to relieve him the usual way rather than force him to those extravagant courses which he took Yet so as the Reformation of the Government and the Ratification of their Laws and Liberties might once again be solemnly confirmed After fifteen days consultation a Tenth is granted for this holy expedition and thereupon those often confirmed Charters called Magna Charta and Charta de Forestae are again ratified and that in the most solemn and ceremonious manner that State and Religion could possibly devise The King with all the chief Nobility of the Realm in their Robes and the Bishops in their Vestments with burning Candles in their hands assemble to hear the terrible Sentence of Excommunication against the Infringers of the same and at the lighting of those Candles the King having received one in his hand gives it to the Prelate that stood by saying It becomes not me who am no Priest to hold this Candle my heart shall be a greater testimony and withal laid his hand spred upon his brest during the reading the Sentence Which done he caused the Charter of King John his Father granted by his free Consent to be openly read And then having thrown down their Candles which lay smoaking on the ground they cried out So let them who incur this Sentence be extinct and have no better savour than these snuffs And the King with a loud voice said As God help me I will as I am a man a Christian a Knight a King crowned and anointed inviolably observe all these things And therewithal the Bells rung out and the People shouted for Joy Yet was not all quieted by this Grant for Si●●● M●●tford Earl of ●ercester a while after char●●g the King with breach of promise the King in great rage replied No promise was to be kept with an unworthy 〈◊〉 At which words Montford riseth up and protested That the King lied and were he not or 〈◊〉 by his Royal Dignity he he would make 〈◊〉 ●●pent his words The King commanded his Attendants to lay hold of him but the Lords would not suffer it Yet after this great affront Montford is again sent to Gascoun with a great Fleet by the King who goes also himself into France and there spends a vast deal of money but it is the Londoners must pay for all for returning home about Christmas they presented him with an hundred pound in Money and two hundred pound in plate which was so slighted and so ill taken that advantage was soon found against them about the escape of a Prisoner which cost them Three Thousand Marks and commonly he had every year one quarrel or other with the Citizens which they are sure to make satisfaction for Soon after another Parliament is called at London wherein the Lords again expostulate about their former Liberties requiring that the Lord Chief Justice c. should be chosen by Parliament They likewise require twenty four Conservators should be elected twelve by the King and twelve by themselves to see to the due execution of these Charters which the King knowing their strength yielded to and both he and his Son the Prince sware to confirm the same A while before the King sent to some Monasteries to borrow money his Officers alledging that the King was Lord of all they had who answered they acknowledged that but yet so as to defend it not to destroy it or take it illegally away from them K Henry 6 Murdered in the Tower K. Edward 5.4

Henry the third died Nov. 16. 1272. when he had reigned 56 years and 28 days and was buried at Westminster having built a great part of that Church As soon as he was dead the great Lords of the Realm caused his eldest Son Prince Edward the first of that name to be proclaimed King and assembling at the New Temple in London they there took order for the quiet Governing of the Realm till he came for he was at this time in the Holy Land and had been there above a year when his Father died and performed many great Actions after which out of Envy to his valour a desperate Saracen who had been often imployed to him from their General being one time upon pretence of some secret Message admitted alone into his Chamber gave him three wounds with a poisoned knife two in the Arm and one near the Armpit which were thought to be mortal and perhaps had been so if out of unspeakable love the Lady Eleanor his wife had not suckt out the poison of his wounds with her mouth thereby effecting a Cure which else had been incurable and it is no wonder that Love should do Wonders since it is it self a Wonder When Edward heard of his Fathers death he took it far more heavily than he did that of his young Son Henry of whose death he had heard a little before at which when Chartes King of Sicily where he then was wondered he answered He might have more Sons but he could never have another Father After his return to London he was crowned at Westminster August 15. 1274. and soon after called a Parliament wherein he would admit no Church-men to sit And a while after he makes War against Baliol King of Scots whom he takes prisoner with the loss of twenty five thousand Scots and commits him prisoner to the Tower of London He likewise brings from Scotland the fatal Chair wherein the Kings of Scotland used to be Crowned which now seems to recover that secret operation according to the ancient Prophesie That whithersoever that Chair should be removed the Kingdom should be removed with it and this Chair King Edward caused to be brought out of Scotland and to be placed at Westminster among the Monuments where it still continues This King restored to the Citizens of London their Liberties which for some misdemeanours they had forfeited In the sixteenth year of his Reign the Sun was so exceeding hot that many men died with the extremity thereof and yet Wheat was sold for three shillings four pence a Quarter at London This King by Proclamation forbid the use of Sea-coal in London and the Suburbs for avoiding the noisom Smoak In his time the Bakers of London were first drawn upon Hurdles by Henry Wallis Mayor and Corn was then first sold by weight In a Synod held in his time it was Ordained according to the Constitution of the General Council That no Ecclesiastical person shall have more than one Benefice with the Cure of Souls About this time the new work of the Church at Westminster was finished and the Foundation of the Black-Fryars near Ludgate was laid by Kilwarby Archbishop of Canterbury And Queen Margaret began to build the Quire of the Gray Friars in London now called Christchurch In his time was begun to be made the great Conduit formerly at the lower end of Cheapside And Henry Wall is Mayor made the Tun in Cornhil a Prison for Nightwalkers and likewise built a House at the Stocks Market for Fish and Flesh which since the fatal Fire in 1666. is demolished and laid into the Street In the ninth year of his Reign there was such a great Frost that five Arches of London Bridge and all Rochester Bridge was carried down and born away On St. Nicholas day in the Even were great Earthquakes Lightning and Thunder with a great Dragon and a Blazing Star which extremely terrified the People In his two and twentieth year three men had their right hands cut off for rescuing a Prisoner from an Officer of the City of London and about that time the River of Thames overflowing the Banks made a breach at Redriff near London and the lower Grounds thereabout were all laid under Water In his twenty seventh year a Fire being kindled in the lesser Hall of the Pallace of Westminster the flame thereof being driven by the wind fired the Monastery next adjoyning which with the Pallace were both consumed The same year by an Act of Common Council in London with the Kings consent it was Ordained that a fat Cock should be sold for three half pence two Pallets for three half pence a fat Capon for two pence half penny a Goose for four pence a Mallard three half pence a Partridge three half pence a Pheasant four pence a Heron six pence a Plover one penny a Swan three shillings a Crane twelve pence two Woodcocks three half pence a fat Lamb from Christmas to Shrovetide sixteen pence and all the year after for four pence and Wheat was this year so plentiful that a Quarter was sold for ten Groats In his thirty second year William Wallace who had often caused great trouble in Scotland was taken and hanged beheaded and quartered in London After King Edward had reigned thirty four years and seven moneths he died and was buried at Westminster leaving his Son Edward the second called Carnarvan to succeed him Of whom the People had at first great expectation but he soon brake all his Fathers admonitions especially that he should banish for ever Pierce Gaveston who had been his Companion in many Irregularities in his Youth He married Isabel the daughter of Philip the Fair of France and makes Gaveston his chiefest Favourite which so incensed the Lords that they threaten unless he would banish him his Court and Kingdom they would hinder his Coronation Which he promises to do but doth not perform but on the contrary bestows so much of his Treasury upon him that he scarce left means to sustain himself or to maintain his Queen This put the Lords into a new discontent who thereupon went again to the King and told him plainly That unless he would put Gaveston out of the Court and Kingdom they would rise up in Arms against him as a perjured King Whereupon out of fear the King sends him to France where finding no entertainment more than in other places he soon returns again and is received into as much favour as before Whereupon the whole Nobility join together except Gilbert Earl of Glocester and raising Forces send to the King either to deliver Gaveston into their hands or else to banish him immediately out of the kingdom But the King led by evil Counsel still refused Whereupon the Lords hearing where he was seized him and cut off his head The King being much concerned at his death to vex the Nobility takes into his nearest familiarity and Council the two Spencers Sir Hugh the Father and Sir Hugh the Son men as debaucht